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    Millet  Masterpieces in Colour Series
    Millet  Masterpieces in Colour Series
    Millet  Masterpieces in Colour Series
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    Millet  Masterpieces in Colour Series

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Millet  Masterpieces in Colour Series - Percy Moore Turner

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      Title: Millet

      Masterpieces in Colour Series

      Author: Percy Moore Turner

      Release Date: June 30, 2013 [eBook #43068]

      Language: English

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      Millet

      MASTERPIECES IN COLOR

      MASTERPIECES

      IN COLOUR

      EDITED BY - -

      T. LEMAN HARE

      MILLET

      1814-1875

      PLATE I.—THE WOOD-CUTTER. Frontispiece

      (In the Louvre)

      An instance of Millet in a less pessimistic mood than we generally find him. The wood-cutter, pursuing his vocation on a warm sunny day, full of life and vigour, brings before us the joyous side of peasant life. We feel that he is happy and contented, and if his lot is somewhat hard, he has none of those distracting ambitions which mar the enjoyment in life to all who fall a prey to them. The wood in the background is a good example of Millet’s powers in this direction.

      Millet

      BY PERCY M. TURNER

      ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

      REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

      IN SEMPITERNUM.

      LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK

      NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

      CONTENTS

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      I

      INTRODUCTION

      AMONGST the great painters of peasant life the name of Jean François Millet stands out prominently. A long interval elapsed betwixt the death of Adrian van Ostade and the birth of Millet, unbroken by a single name, with the solitary exception of Chardin, of a painter who grasped the profundity of peasant life. In Holland and Flanders in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries we find many painters who, whilst living the humblest lives themselves, saw in their surroundings such material for treatment as has handed their names down to posterity. It is only quite recently that one of the greatest of all, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, has come to occupy his proper position in the world of art. Formerly he was looked upon as an eccentric painter, whose subjects were

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